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Selby's Cross Country by Car
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Selbys arrive in Sarasota
Sarasota has 1,000 residents. -
Selby's build a Spanish Style House
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Selby family buys land and builds home at Hudson Bayou and Sarasota Bay
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Marie Selby in 1939
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William Selby establishes the William and Marie Selby Foundation
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Explore Epiphytic Plants
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Marie Selby passes
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Christy Payne Mansion Purchased from Dr. and Mrs. James Paulk
Inhabited up until 1973 and needed updating. It was purchased with the intent to be used in the gardens. -
Organized Towards Opening up to the Public
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Opened for the General Public (7 acres)
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Haley is Born
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Haley visits Selby Gardens as a Child Many Times
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Rare Peruvian orchid is smuggled into the United States and brought to Selby Gardens
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Selby Gardens pleads guilty to violating international law in a plea agreement that includes a fine and full-page apology in The American Orchid Society magazine
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Rainforest Garden Opens
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Jennifer Rominiecki is hired as Selby president and CEO
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Haley gets a degree in Mathematics
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Selby House is restored
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Haley & her husband get married
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Haley makes candles for CGMS
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Groundbreaking Ceremony for Phase 1
- A new Welcome Center
- A cutting-edge Plant Research Center that will include a state-of-the-art Herbarium and Laboratory as well as a Research Library.
- The Living Energy Access Facility (LEAF) that will house parking, a gift shop and a garden-level restaurant -Capped with a 50,000-square-foot solar array that will make Selby Gardens the world’s first net-positive botanical garden complex.
- LEAF adds clean rainwater to Sarasota Bay.
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Phase 2:
-A hurricane-resilient greenhouse complex to house the world-renowned living collections.
-A Learning Pavilion, which will offer expanded capacity for school programs and enhance indoor and outdoor classroom space for children and adults.
